What better way to start off the Reppin Sessions podcast series by having Coach Miles as our first guest. Coach Miles coached for 11 years at White Oak 8 of them he was the Head Coach. He had a 82-23-5 record from 1950-1958

6 district titles

3 bi district titles

2 regional championships

1 state title (shared with Mart)

Thank you to Scott Miles. Scott is Coaches son who helped put this together and allowed me to come to Coaches assistant living facility so we could sit down and talk. With originally over 2 hours of audio we put out the stories that make this interview one of a kind!

1. :25 seconds in Coach is asked if the rumors about him scheduling the beloved homecoming game (that’s played once every three years ) for the first round of the playoffs . Coach was very confident in the 57 team.

2. 1:02 Coach talks about winning the shared state title in 1957.

3. 3:00 Coach talks about Roy Bruce once stand out Roughneck football player who still holds the White Oak all time rushing record. Bruce was killed in a car wreck in White Oak during his freshmen year at TCU.

4. 5:35 Coach tells his favorite Roy Bruce story when they played Mineola and the fans were being rowdy.

5. 10:40 Coach talks about Max McGee being a Jr in Highschool when Coach first came to White Oak and how he never got enough to eat so he became a hustler at shovelboard.

6. 13:44 Coach and son Scott talk about Max McGee when he was playing for the Packers.

7. 15:10 Coach talks about Max McGee being a smoker in high school and needing tonsillitis surgery the summer going to his SR year.

8. 17:00 Max McGee was a basketball stud as well.

9. 18:14 White Oak wasn’t only good at football in. Baseball Max McGee was a track state champion.

10. 18:35 Coach talks about Max McGee getting recruited and telling SMU he wasn’t going to play for them.

11. 20:15 Why Max McGee chose Tulane.

12. 21:40 Coach tells the story how he came to White Oak.

13. 24:40 Coach tells the story why the 1958 team was disqualified and had to forfeit the season after beating Edgewood in the quarterfinals 71-0.

14. 26:55 Coach talks about Hawkins being the ones who turned White Oak in for the ineligible player.

15. 27:40 Coach talks leaving White Oak and the community being split up that happened in the school and the church. Making things very unpleasant Coach decided it was time to leave.

16. 29:18 Coach talks about his first interview when talking to other schools and how he wasn’t going to come into another divided school board.

17. 30:45 Coach talks about how he got his coaching job in Dallas.

18. 32:30 Coach was roommates with Bum Phillips.

19. 33:00 Coach talks White Oak band and how the director would go get college students at Kilgore College to help with the band when playing big events.

20. 33:45 So many oil wells on campus they had hard time finding places to practice.

21. 34:00 Coach talks about other White Oak coaches.

22. 35:00 Greatest accomplishment while at White Oak

23. 35:31 The whole town was in Waco for the 57 state title game.

24. 35:40 Coach gives his top 3 athletes he ever coached in White Oak.

1. Max McGee

2 Roy Bruce

3. David Alexander

25. 38:10 New football jerseys and The Bobby Green story .

26. 41:05 Stabbing at the White Oak vs Pine tree game

27. 43:30 Coach talks about the biggest fan in White Oak who was the best supporter in Texas and you could hear him all over the community yellin turnem lose and Letem roll cotton.

28. 44:10 Hater wanted Coach fired for going 5-5

29. 44:35 Coach talks the story about how the once hater turned into his biggest fan.

I hope everyone enjoyed episode 1. Please like and comment ur favorite part! Also Future episodes will be recorded in studio.